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Breech :: Breech (v. t.) To fit or furnish with a breech; as, to breech a gun..

Quoin :: Quoin (n.) To support the breech of a cannon.

Breechcloth :: Breechcloth (n.) A cloth worn around the breech.

Breech :: Breech (v. t.) To whip on the breech.

Dicentra :: Dicentra (n.) A genus of herbaceous plants, with racemes of two-spurred or heart-shaped flowers, including the Dutchman's breeches, and the more showy Bleeding heart (D. spectabilis)..

Breech :: Breech (n.) Breeches.

Tang :: Tang (n.) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock..

Shell :: Shell (n.) The case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and shot, used with breechloading small arms..

Inexpressibles :: Inexpressibles (n. pl.) Breeches; trousers.

Brogues :: Brogues (n. pl.) Breeches.

Hausse :: Hausse (n.) A kind of graduated breech sight for a small arm, or a cannon..

Gaskins :: Gaskins (n.pl.) Loose hose or breeches; galligaskins.

Plunger :: Plunger (n.) The firing pin of a breechloader.

Acanthus :: Acanthus (n.) A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech..

Vent :: Vent (n.) The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole..

Corduroy :: Corduroy (n.) Trousers or breeches of corduroy.

Unbreeched :: Unbreeched (imp. & p. p.) of Unbreec.

Breech :: Breech (n.) The lower part of the body behind; the buttocks.

Sans-culotte :: Sans-culotte (n.) A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; -- a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons..

Bear''s-breech :: Bear's-breech (n.) The English cow parsnip (Heracleum sphondylium.

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